HatManSan
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Greetings All.
I have an interesting issue. One that has wasted much of my time and mobile bandwidth allowance. I have a client with a SKY HD box and a PS3. Nothing unusual about that. Both these sources are hooked up via HDMI to a Panasonic TX-L32E5. No amp or switchers involved. The other day they contacted me to say they had no picture from Sky. On inspection they had no image from Sky or the console. Changing HDMI leads made no difference. Swapping the inputs used from 1/2 to 3/4 again made no difference. As a SCART lead was handy I connected that up using the breakout leads supplied with the TV. A standard image was displayed from the Sky box but with terrible mains hum. This was evident at any volume on the TV. No analogue leads were available for the console so no further testing was done. Both the Sky box and the console were removed and hooked up to another TV. No image was available. Clearly a finger drifted in the direction of the two sources. Now for the interesting part. A third party lent me an HD box for testing. Hooked up to the second TV all was well. Hooked up to the original TV, there was no image! Neither of three remaining inputs provided an image. However both the console and the original HD box provide a perfect image on a PC monitor, in this case an Iiyama 2473HDS. this monitor has two HDMI inputs a DVI and a VGA input. Either device plugged into either of the two HDMI inputs resulted in a image. Syncing was a bit slow but I figured that is the monitor. My question is why do I get an image on the monitor but not from either of the two TV's? The owner has since taken the TV for repair. I expect to see it back NFF! What is different about HDMI on a monitor compared to a standard consumer HD TV? The monitor is HDCP compliant.
I am sorry this thread is a tad long. HDMI Licensing were not able to help, nor have Sky and thus far neither has the Internet.
Many thanks
Matt
I have an interesting issue. One that has wasted much of my time and mobile bandwidth allowance. I have a client with a SKY HD box and a PS3. Nothing unusual about that. Both these sources are hooked up via HDMI to a Panasonic TX-L32E5. No amp or switchers involved. The other day they contacted me to say they had no picture from Sky. On inspection they had no image from Sky or the console. Changing HDMI leads made no difference. Swapping the inputs used from 1/2 to 3/4 again made no difference. As a SCART lead was handy I connected that up using the breakout leads supplied with the TV. A standard image was displayed from the Sky box but with terrible mains hum. This was evident at any volume on the TV. No analogue leads were available for the console so no further testing was done. Both the Sky box and the console were removed and hooked up to another TV. No image was available. Clearly a finger drifted in the direction of the two sources. Now for the interesting part. A third party lent me an HD box for testing. Hooked up to the second TV all was well. Hooked up to the original TV, there was no image! Neither of three remaining inputs provided an image. However both the console and the original HD box provide a perfect image on a PC monitor, in this case an Iiyama 2473HDS. this monitor has two HDMI inputs a DVI and a VGA input. Either device plugged into either of the two HDMI inputs resulted in a image. Syncing was a bit slow but I figured that is the monitor. My question is why do I get an image on the monitor but not from either of the two TV's? The owner has since taken the TV for repair. I expect to see it back NFF! What is different about HDMI on a monitor compared to a standard consumer HD TV? The monitor is HDCP compliant.
I am sorry this thread is a tad long. HDMI Licensing were not able to help, nor have Sky and thus far neither has the Internet.
Many thanks
Matt
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